Common - Finding Forever

Why are you so petrified of silence? Here, can you handle this...

• I feel (somewhat) bad complaining again, but...
• Isaac's dad needs to hurry up and get back in the country and let me get out of this freakin house on a Friday night.
• Cause this he-takes-Isaac-for-literally-one-hour-in-June thing isn't working for me.
• I guess I shouldn't really complain. I have had several of my friends and (of course) my mom offer to take Isaac for me. But it's not about that.
• I don't want him with a sitter.
• I want him with his other parent.
• Anyways, I could go off on that tangent forever.
• In case I haven't told you, Isaac's dad is in South Africa for the World Cup. My coworker pointed out that I bring up the fact that he is there all the time. But seriously I have serious envy. (Did my using the "serious" twice in one sentence drive home the seriousness of the situation? Because it is serious. Seriously.)
• Anyways, he is off shirking parental responsibilities and galavanting around South Africa on his uncle's dime and I am stuck here on a Friday night scrubbing orange juice stains out of the hallway carpet.
• Wow... welcome to my life. Good thing I keep a blog to make myself feel fascinating.
• So I got a summer report for a new kindergartener in the fall.
• (I am writing IEPs for extra cash this summer. And because I can rock an IEP if I do say so myself and would rather have them show up written correctly in the first place than show up on my desk with a big post-it on it in the fall that says "Lisa, this needs to be done ASAP"... but anyways...)
• The report always lists a students strengths and weaknesses.
• This report lists (among other things) being strong willed as a weakness.
• Now, I have worked with PLENTY of strong willed kids with autism over the past seven years and I totally get how that can lead to behavior problems or otherwise thwart a teacher's best teaching efforts.
• But, as someone who is terrifically stubborn myself, I like to think that strong will could also be a strength.
• Anyways, now I'm just babbling.
• I woke up this morning around seven to Isaac crawling in bed next to me.
• We both woke up again around nine which was HEAVENLY.
• Since yesterday I was wide eyed and bushy tailed at seven am.
• I don't care what some people say about co-sleeping.
• I love (occasionally) waking up to a little sleeping face snuggling up to me.
• So school is out for summer. I'm working 8 hours a week of summer school and writing the occasional IEP so I am keeping somewhat busy.
• I need to keep my days structured and busy or I start to lose my mind.
• As much as I get stressed out by being spread too thin during the school year I go too insane when there is no school work and it's just me sitting inside these four walls all day.
• I've said it before and I will say it again, I could never be a stay at home housewife.
• Not that I would want to work 40 (plus) hours a week if I didn't have to.
• But nothing but children's TV and laundry and dishes makes my brain feel as though it is turning into mush.
• I think I would go into a serious depression.
• Anyways, to celebrate summer Isaac and I trekked out to Ocean City yesterday and had a great time.
• More than once he said "This was such a great day mom!".
• And it really was.
• It's fun now that he is old enough to travel longer distances without a lot of drama. I'm trying to think of some other day trips for us to hit this summer.
• My bridesmaid dress is officially in. I need to go pick up my frothy canary number and probably have it altered.

That's all I got for now... good night!

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Here's the list of 2010 Resolutions and progress made: Ride my bike to work at least once Definitely possible in terms of distance but I don't know if it is feasible in terms of not dying. The roads I would have to take don't have shoulders and are very busy. Plus I would have to cross a narrow bridge and the sidewalk part of it is closed. AND people in Pottstown just are not used to dealing with bikers on the road. It's not off the table though if I got up really early or posisbly over the summer. Organize office, craft, sewing and scrapbook supplies and start using the office as a functional craft space In progress. I hauled out a ton of stuff I had been hoarding, organized my filing cabinet, gave away heaps of scrapbooking stuff to my mom. The fabric and other craft stuff is organized. There is still a ways to go in there but major progress has been made. Finish painting the rest of the house No new progress to report. Make a loaf of bread from scratch. Go one week without the internet I'm counting it. --->Completed 1/15 Take at least one mural tour in Philly I'm definitely knocking this out within the next few weeks. As soon as Isaac's dad gets back from South Africa and I get a Saturday to myself. Fly a kite Still can't find anything to fix the kite. And we've had lots of good kite flying days. Scrapbook 3 pages a month No scrapbook pages done. I gave away quite a bit of my scrapbook stuff as I cleaned out the office. I just haven't felt drawn to it lately the way I used to. Work out twice a week Yeah... ummm... I haven't hit this every time. Start composting No new progress to report. Take Isaac camping Soon! Soon! Drink 8 glasses of water a day Very hit or miss. If I remember to bring my water bottle into school I do better. Otherwise it will be like, 8 at night and I will be like, "Why the heck am I so parched?" and then I will realize I have drank, like 2 glasses of water all day. Take a class on something hobby related I've gotten some girldfriends to agree to try some yoga classes with me this summer. We've tossed around the idea of Zumba as well. Make progress towards getting my elementary certification (right now I am highly qualified in elementary ed, but it is more desirable to be dually certified) No and I MUST do something to get rolling on this over the summer. Floss daily Another total and complete FAIL. I just hate flossing. No two ways around it. Read three books before I head to the beach Done! I read Anne of Green Gables, Mary Ellen Edmund's Speaks and Handle with Care by Jodi Piccoult. I also finished The Time Traveler's Wife but I started that one last year. Reading more books has me watching a lot less TV which is a great thing. Eat more homemade meals and less frozen stuff and fast food Slight improvement but still a long, long, long way to go. Grow something edible and eat it I had a basil plant growing on my window sill for this exact purpose but the cats ATE it. So back to the drawing board on this one. Write a blog post when each of these is completed will do...